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{{Infobox scientist <br />
|name = Anna Mani <br/>അന്ന മാണി<br />
|image = Anna Mani.jpg<br />
|caption = Anna Mani<br />
|birth_date = 23 August 1918<br />
|birth_place = [[Peermade]], [[Kerala]]<br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|08|16|1918|8|23|df=yes}}<br />
|death_place = [[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Kerala]]<br />
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|nationality = [[India]]n<br />
|field = [[Meteorology]], [[Physics]] <br />
|work_institution = [[Indian Meteorological Department]], [[Pune]] and [[Raman Research Institute]], [[Bangalore]]<br />
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|religion = <!-- [[Christianity]]{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} --><br />
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'''Anna Mani''' (23 August 1918 – 16 August 2001) was an Indian [[physicist]] and [[meteorologist]].<ref name="hindu_2001_10_14">{{cite news|last=Sur|first=Abha|title=The Life and Times of a Pioneer|url=http://hindu.com/2001/10/14/stories/1314078b.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413141835/http://hindu.com/2001/10/14/stories/1314078b.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 April 2014|accessdate=7 October 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=14 October 2001}}</ref> She retired as the Deputy Director General of the [[Indian Meteorological Department]] and further served as a visiting professor at the [[Raman Research Institute]].<ref name="hindu_2001_10_14" /><br />
She made several contributions to the field of [[meteorological instrumentation]], conducted research and published numerous papers on [[Sunlight|solar radiation]], ozone and wind energy measurements.<ref name=lilavati>{{cite book|last=Sur|first=Abha|title=Lilavati's daughters: The women scientists of India|year=2007|publisher=Indian Academy of Science|pages=23–25|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/liladaug.html}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Anna Modayil Mani was born in 1918 at Peermade, Kerala to an ancient [[Saint Thomas Christians|Syrian Christian]] family.<ref name="hindu_2001_10_14" /><ref>|work=Platinum Jubilee Publishing of INSA|publisher=Indian National science academy|accessdate=7 October 2012}}</ref> Her father was a [[Civil engineering|civil engineer]] and an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]].<ref name="hindu_2001_10_14" /> She was the seventh of eight children in her family. During her childhood, she was a voracious reader.<ref name="hindu_2001_10_14" /> She was impressed by the activities of [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] during [[Vaikom satyagraha]]. Inspired by the nationalist movement, she took to wearing only [[khadi]] garments.<br />
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The Mani family was a typical upper-class professional household where from childhood the male children were groomed for high-level careers, whereas the daughters were primed for marriage. But Anna Mani would have none of it. Her formative years were spent engrossed in books. By the age of eight, she had read almost all the books in Malayalam at her public library and, by the time she was twelve, all the books in English. On her eighth birthday she declined to accept her family's customary gift of a set of diamond earrings, opting instead for a set of Encyclopædia Britannica. The world of books opened her to new ideas and imbued in her a deep sense of social justice which informed and shaped her life.<br />
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== Education ==<br />
She wanted to pursue dancing, but she decided in favour of physics because she liked the subject. In 1939, she graduated from the [[Pachayappas College, Chennai|Pachaiyappas College]] in Madras, with a B.Sc Honors degree in physics and chemistry. In 1940, she won a scholarship for research in the [[Indian Institute of Science]], Bangalore.<br />
In 1945, she went to [[Imperial College Mogadishu|Imperial College]], London to pursue graduate studies in Physics. However, she ended up specialising in meteorological instruments.<ref name=insa>{{cite web|last=Gupta|first=Aravind|title=Anna Mani|url=http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/bs30annamani.pdf|work=Platinum Jubilee Publishing of INSA|publisher=Indian National science academy|accessdate=7 October 2012}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
After graduating from the Pachai college, she worked under Prof. [[C. V. Raman|C V Raman]], researching the optical properties of [[ruby]] and [[diamond]].<ref name=lilavati/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Anna Mani {{!}} The Best of Indian Science|url=https://nobelprizeseries.in/tbis/anna-mani|access-date=2021-09-09|website=nobelprizeseries.in}}</ref> She authored five research papers and submitted her PhD dissertation, but she was not granted a PhD degree because she did not have a master's degree in physics.<br />
After returning to India in 1948, she joined the Meteorological department in [[Pune]]. She published numerous research papers on meteorological instrumentation. <br />
She was mostly responsible for arranging for meteorological instruments, imported from Britain. <br />
By 1953, she had become the head of the division with a 121 men working for her.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/nov102001/1251.pdf|title=Anna Modayil Mani - A Tribute|last=Ashford|first=Oliver|website=Indian Institute of Science}}</ref><br />
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Anna Mani wished to make India independent in weather instruments. She standardised the drawings of close to 100 different weather instruments. From 1957-58, she set up a network of stations to measure solar radiation. In Bangalore, she set up a small workshop that manufactured instruments for the purpose of measuring wind speed and solar energy. She worked on the development of an apparatus to measure the ozone. She was made a member of the International Ozone Association. She set up a meteorological observatory and an instrumentation tower at the Thumba rocket launching facility.<ref name="insa" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/83063/anna-mani-scientist-meteorology-ozone-wind-energy/|title=Anna Mani Is One of India's Greatest Woman Scientists. Yet You Probably Haven't Heard Her Story|date=2017-01-21|work=The Better India|access-date=2018-01-20|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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Deeply dedicated to her work, Anna Mani never married. She was associated with many scientific organizations such as the Indian National Science Academy, American Meteorological Society, International Solar Energy Society, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, etc. In 1987, she was a recipient of the INSA K. R. Ramanathan Medal.<br />
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She was transferred to Delhi in 1969 as the Deputy Director General. In 1975, she served as a WMO consultant in Egypt. She retired as the deputy director general of the Indian Meteorological department in 1976.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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In 1994 she suffered from a stroke, and died on 16 August 2001 in [[Thiruvananthapuram]].<ref name="hindu_2001_10_14" /><br />
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The World Meteorological Organization remembered her on 100 birth anniversary and published her life profile along with Anna interview. <br />
<ref>{{cite news |last1=Deepshikha |first1=Singh |title=WMO Remembers Indian meteorologist Anna Mani |url=http://abclive.in/wmo-anna-mani-indian-meteorologist/ |accessdate=25 August 2018 |agency=ABC Live |issue=Online}}</ref><br />
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==Publications==<br />
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* 1992. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_jRTeSoJowgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Anna+Mani&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mYIFVYWZEerdsASggIHQAQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Anna%20Mani&f=false ''Wind Energy Resource Survey in India''], vv. 2. xi + 22 pp. Ed. Allied Publ. {{ISBN|8170233585}}, {{ISBN|9788170233589}}<br />
* 1981. [https://books.google.com/books?id=I52NlAa4Lb4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Anna+Mani&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mYIFVYWZEerdsASggIHQAQ&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Anna%20Mani&f=false ''Solar Radiation over India''] x + 548 pp.<ref name=lilavati/><br />
* 1980. ''The Handbook for Solar Radiation data for India''<br />
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